#ten

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind. ↗

— James Taylor

#artist #attention #kind #motivation #seek

I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#i #ordinary #pretend

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. ↗

— Frederick W. Taylor

#competent #considerable #convince #devote #does

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent. ↗

— James Taylor

#easily #extent #i #i think #low

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five. ↗

— James Taylor

#bought #carolina #cello #father #fourteen

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could. ↗

— James Taylor

#could #i #out #pretending #songwriter

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite. ↗

— James Taylor

#go #here #i #lyric #make

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way. ↗

— James Taylor

#autobiographical #being #especially #everyone #get

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them. ↗

— James Taylor

#by the people #entertainment #interest #news #now

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music. ↗

— Mick Taylor

#bought #charts #chord #had #i